Dash

No clue who Portland is giving up, my guess is Rudy and Outlaw.

Link Blazers get their point guard, Rose gets his sidekick and Utah gets younger.

Yay?

What a prick.

His attitude.

http://espn.go.com/nba/ Go to mid page, find the tab 'media' and go to Ric Bucher. Skip to around 10:30 where he starts talking about the Ariza-Artest swap. He basically says there was a lot going behind the scenes with him in Houston. He didn't really change, Houston just did a great job of covering everything up.

Wow, that deal is terrible...

Its not a bad signing at all. Good work BC.

What a signing for the Spurs. McDyess still has a lot left in the tank and would be a great compliment next to Tim Duncan.

Its pretty complicated but the NBA sometimes might hand out a DPE to a team with plenty of injuries or a player with a season ending injury. There is a FAQ about it in Clutchfans. Link

Damn, Dallas is looking good. Jason Kidd/Terry Josh Howard Shawn Marion Dirk Nowitzki Marcin Gortat I could see Dallas snatching the 5th seed easy.

Read the rest here Finally its a done deal. We still have to the MLE, wonder who we're targeting now.

Hakeem Olajuwon - He would often visit my neighborhood when I was a kid. The mosque there is probably one of the best in Houston and I literally lived right next to it, so I would always try and talk to him. He got to know me by face, came to my house a few times but he started coming less as time went by. I moved to Sugar Land years later and the closest mosque to my house was made my Hakeem and he is ALWAYS over there. Still see him all the time and shake his hand, etc. Ron Artest - Was at LA Fitness, gave a quick shout to him and left.

Eh, I wouldn't mind it but I rather not spend more money on what is left in this FA. Signings aren't until tomorrow.

GREAT signing! Finally some good news for the Pistons. Lets see how Cleveland's offensive scheme works out without him. Yep.

Damn...oh well, both Kuester and Thibodeau would make excellent coaches.

Thank God. Do not want.

Who wants to go the dump known as Cleveland? Hence 'rebuidling'...Ariza just wants to get his spotlight and be the main option. He already got his ring, he knows what it feels like to win it all. Houston is actually in really good shape. T-Mac's 23 million come off in 2010 and so does Yao's if he declines his player option. Then bam Houston can offer a max deal and we also have a top 5 draft pick, and we're good to go. Anyways Ariza put all this bull to rest.

Get well big fella. Now, all we need is T-Mac out and we can commence tanking.

I think BC had no choice but to overpay for Hedo. Not many free agents have a desire to go to Toronto and with Hedo you guys are definitely playoff bound. Do you really think the Raptors can afford another crap season? Besides if Toronto does well this season it might convince Bosh to stay.

Battier, easily.

Do whats best for you big fella. We're tanking this year anyway.

Overpaid? I think the contract we signed him to was actually great value.

^Agreed. And in the Rockets' situation, I would definitely rather have Trevor Ariza.

Yeah, he's not coming back. We have Budinger and Taylor to replace him.